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Bejoscha
Object "self" in classes
Mar 10th, 2010, 12:42am  
I've a syntax question for general object-oriented programming. Is there a way to reference an object "self" within a class?

I do have two classes which are interlinked (say class A and class B).

Within class A I have some arraylists of B objects and some functions act on those objects, calling routines from class B as usual.

However, some of those routines (of class B) would need/change some variables of the calling A object as parameters.

Can I pass the calling object reference somehow? Right now, I can only get what I want by defining the A objects globally, but I do not like this very much.

I know from other languages something like a call of a B-class routine within class A:

B.CallBRoutine(self,....) where "self" refers to the A-object.


An identical problem happens, if I want to call a "global" routine from within class A but need the global routine to know which A-object called it.

I hope I could make my questions clear?
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PhiLho 
Re: Object "self" in classes
Reply #1 - Mar 10th, 2010, 1:46am  
It is called this in Java.
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Bejoscha
Re: Object "self" in classes
Reply #2 - Mar 10th, 2010, 3:44am  
Thanks!
It would be great if that could get mentioned in the "OOP tutorial" of the reference - whoever is responsible for it.
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